I've got a little list : encore verse : autograph manuscript draft with corrections.

Record ID: 
417880
Accession number: 
GSC 111344.1
Creator: 
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911, author.
Biographical Data: 
English dramatist, author, librettist, stage director, and illustrator.
Title: 
I've got a little list : encore verse : autograph manuscript draft with corrections.
Uniform title: 
Mikado. Act 1. I've got a little list. Selections
Credit Line: 
Gift of Reginald Allen.
Notes: 

Verse consists of 10 lines; at head of text: Encore verse.
No place of writing is given; manuscript unsigned and undated.
Autograph manuscript draft of an encore verse for Ko-Ko's song "I've got a little list", from Act I of the Mikado; evidently written by W.S. Gilbert for the 1908 revival at the Savoy Theatre, and including topical references to "the lovely suffragist" and "the red-hot socialist" absent from the original version of the song; with the second half of the second line rewritten.
Library has another manuscript of W.S. Gilbert's "encore" verse for this song, evidently a later draft, incorporating the changes indicated in this version (see GSC 111344.2); the two manuscripts housed together.

Provenance: 

Reginald Allen.

Associated names: 

Allen, Reginald, former owner.